Warlord Games Press Release - Pre-Order: Bolt Action Gurkhas!

From the Warlord Games Website

Famed for their ferocity, bravery and very big knives, our Gurkhas boxed set for Bolt Action is due for release in mid-late September 2013.

You can now place a pre-order for our forthcoming metal Gurkha boxed set!

It contains 21 metal miniatures, sculpted by Paul Hicks: Major James Lumley and two attendant riflemen, a section of ten Gurkhas in firing poses, and a section of eight Gurkhas in charging poses– a mix of bayonet and kukri knife to see off the enemy!

A quarter of a million Gurkas served in the Second World War – recruited from the British Empire’s colony of Nepal into over 40 battalions. They fought in Syria, North Africa, Italy, Greece, as well as in Burma against the Japanese.



The boxed set is led by Major James Rutherford Lumley (father of British actress and Gurkha welfare activist, Joanna Lumley), who was in the thick of the fighting at the battle for Mogaung in northern Burma in June 1944, one of the fiercest and most brutal in the entire campaign against the Japanese in the Far East.